Our dinner went great last night!  It was a lot of fun to get to know some of the newer people, and luckily, only seventeen showed up plus Donn, Jeff (our youth pastor), Shannon (his wife), and me.  So we had enough seating and way more than enough food!  I'm having some of the girls from the youth group and Shannon over tonight for what is becoming our weekly "office party" so we can all watch our favorite show together.  And we've all pretty much been attending in our pajamas... so my Thursday nights are absolutely stress-free!  Woo Hoo! 

PS:  I had about half of my hair chopped off today and dyed it back to a deep red!  I'm pretty sure I like it!  I'll post a pic the next time I get one of the new me.   

We took a bike ride for my birthday and ended up in Cripple Creek.  The leaves were amazing!  Take a look:   
 Here we are just before we took off: 

I rode for about seven hours without fanny-fatigue... thanks to Donn Sr. who lent us his bike that basically has a lazy-boy recliner for the passenger seat (much better than Donn's thong-inspired Harley Sportster seat)! What a fun day!  Definitely my best birthday yet... even though I'm inching ever closer to the big 4-0! 

I'll admit... I was having a terrible day.  Then I stumbled on this website and it totally made my night and kept me up well after midnight giggling and saving pictures.  Donn is gonna kill me when he sees this!  But for the sake of anyone else who might be having a bad day...  Said site lets you upload your photo and insert it into different years- I got some pretty hilarious results.  For example: me in 1960.  Sexy, no? 
   
And then there's me in 1964... yeah, baby, yeah!  Apparently I couldn't afford new frames...

There's the bouffant bob in 1966 (my own hair was bigger than this in the 80's btw)

Are you burning with desire yet?   Just wait until the 70's.... Gee, I bet my hair smells terriffic: 

And my personal favorite, from the disco era, where I did my best rollerskating every saturday morning at Great Skate in Houston, Tx.... from 1978 (Dang, I looked pretty good for nine... and check out my tan!): 

And finally... 1984... I had just met Donn in the 8th grade, and this is probably a better representation of the size of the hair that I worked beautifully in jr. high and high school;  Thank you Aquanet!  In Texas, the saying was:  "The higher the hair, the closer to God!"  It was my personal motto.  Ah-hem.... 1984: 

But Wait.... not done yet!  Here's my super sexy man through the decades... I believe the timeframe here is 1976.
  
And the chick-magnetizing, slightly frizzy, stoner/surfer look from 1980

Then of course, there's the "business in the front, party in the back 1990 bi-level mullett (thank you, Billy Ray Cyrus):

and finally... how to make your husband look like the serial killer next door, from 1962...
 
Ahhhhh.  My work here is done.  I think I can go to sleep smiling tonight.  Donn is going to be ticked the next time he stumbles upon this... but he doesn't actually check my site too often... so I'm probably good for at least a week or so!  LOL.... He really is a handsome guy, I promise!  Lastly... here's the real deal: 

G'night fellow xangans.